Today, after spending the day yesterday with our youngest grandson, I am inspired to write about how we walk.

He is a new walker and just began to take his first steps at the first of September.

He still walks somewhat like a penguin and has a hard time balancing himself. He also tries to go way too fast according to his ability and is always running into something and getting hurt.

Last night what inspired me the most to write this was the fact that he was trying his hardest to walk forward but was holding a blanket and it was dragging under his feet and he was basically standing and stepping on it the whole time he was trying to walk forward. He was getting so angry because he could not walk but could not see that the blanket he was carrying was the culprit.

In watching his struggles it got me to thinking about how we as Christians try so hard sometimes to walk in God’s way. We really have the best of intentions but may have a burden we are carrying or unforgiveness in our hearts towards someone.

I remember a time that I had some really angry thoughts towards someone. The emotions were eating my lunch so to speak. I knew in my mind that what I was carrying around was wrong but in my heart I felt justified to be doing so.

I was in my office at work one day and a co-worker came in and asked me if I was alright. I quickly answered, NO! I said to her that I am so angry that if I can’t figure out a way to get this out of me it is going to destroy me.

After several weeks had passed of laying awake at night being angry I decided to ask God to help me. I basically said to God that I could not under my own power forgive this person and that it was eating me alive. I asked God to help me forgive. It took a while but it did happen and this person is in my life today in a vital role.

Isaiah 41:13 (KJV) reads like this:

For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

Our little grandson walks just fine when one or both of us hold his hand. He is confident and can even step up steps and move fast and not get hurt. It is when he is walking alone that he struggles as it is all a learning process.

As my husband and I were helping him walk up our basement steps yesterday I said to my husband that our grandson will probably be running up those same steps by next year.

We as adults are the same way. The more we struggle walking and lean on God to help us the better we get at it and what used to be such struggles become easy and the burden becomes light.

How many times in our life do we struggle and try to carry our burdens and our heartaches all alone? Are we walking around angry all the time? Do we hurt ourselves and others? We need to ask ourselves these questions.

It is not the walk that gets us but the way we walk that counts!